ULTRA GOLD CARD
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 9:46 am
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A machine with even better specs plus a fast 32 bit QL graphics controller actually materialized... the Q60... and the designer is still active. Also the man who sold it.pjw wrote:These guys were obviously not reversing into the future! Sadly, the age of the giants appears to be over for now..
As the author of said vaporware, I can only agree. When I did Aurora I hoped it would get the QL out of it's old case but no such luck...Peter wrote: Seems like fitting the QL case is so important that even vaporware appears more gigantic than a machine that actually shipped.
I already noticed that in the old days... everything of importance needed to fit the QL case...
And people were then tinkering to move their stuff outside the QL case, because they needed a decent keyboard and space for drives.
Peter wrote:A machine with even better specs plus a fast 32 bit QL graphics controller actually materialized... the Q60... and the designer is still active. Also the man who sold it.pjw wrote:These guys were obviously not reversing into the future! Sadly, the age of the giants appears to be over for now..
Seems like fitting the QL case is so important that even vaporware appears more gigantic than a machine that actually shipped.
I already noticed that in the old days... everything of importance needed to fit the QL case...
And people were then tinkering to move their stuff outside the QL case, because they needed a decent keyboard and space for drives.
If the announcement was about a variant of the GoldFire, then why does it say "Miracle Systems" and not "Nasta"?Nasta wrote:As the author of said vaporware, I can only agree. When I did Aurora I hoped it would get the QL out of it's old case but no such luck...